Where might i find books on female explorers in the 19th century?

Question

hi,
any iformation would be appreciated.

or female adventures!

or female adventures. Loner explores.

or female adventures. Loner explores.

Answer 1

Try amazon

Answer 2

I read this book last year and it was very good. How High Can We Climb? The Story of Women Explorers by Jeannine Atkins.

And here is my review of it:

HOW HIGH CAN WE CLIMB: THE STORY OF WOMEN EXPLORERS is an enjoyable read on the lives of twelve women explorers over the past 240 years. Seemingly well-researched, HOW HIGH CAN WE CLIMB focuses on women divers, women mountain-climbers, women archaeologists, women cave-explorers, women arctic (and antarctic) explorers, and women sailors. Spanning from the 1760s to the present day, the book examines the lives of these twelve explorers: Jeanne Baret, Florence Baker, Annie Smith Peck, Josephine Peary, Arnarulunguaq, Elisabeth Casteret, Nicole Maxwell, Sylvia Earle, Junko Tabei, Kay Cottee, Sue Hendrickson, and Ann Bancroft. The book also explores the lives of other explorers--male and female--that were contemporaries of these explorers and often worked alongside or influenced these twelve women.

It is an enjoyable and often fascinating read. The book includes a selected bibliography for women explorers as well as selected bibliographies for these women as individuals. A timeline and index are included as well. While I can overlook the "fictionalized" dialogue included in HOW HIGH CAN WE CLIMB and the lack of source notes, I must say that the use of photographs and maps would have been more appealing to me than the black and white sketches of Dusan Petricic. Photographs, source notes, and more direct quoting from primary sources (instead of fictionalized dialogue) would have earned the book five stars instead of four.

Answer 3

A serious question. Were there many of them or are you assuming in this post-feminist age there must have been a bunch if we only discover the evil patriarchial conspiracy to hide their valiant achievements?

Of course, there were married couples, and it is fair to give the wife equal billing in those cases, but it would sort of overdo it to list her as a separate explorer, though I well know there are people who will try it.

An example is a couple who did missionary work in Oregon, but I can't remember their names.

Calamity Jane, though I don't think she actually broke new ground. She was more like a pioneer moving into a settled area.

There is a professor in Cedar Falls, Iowa who wrote a book about pioneering in Iowa in the 19th Century, assuming women were dragged around by obnoxious men. She discovered in many cases it was women who nagged their husbands to leave run down soil in the Appalachians for a better life. But, they were not explorers, nor were their husbands, families went as family units on established routes.

Sacajawea was also part of an expedition headed by Lewis and Clark. Her job was translator, not explorer.

It would indeed be interesting to know of any major exploration headed by a woman or women.

Answer 4

Look for books on

# Isabella Bishop
# Amelia Earhart
# Mary Kingsley
# Sacagawea
There are others as well. If you go to the 20th century there is Anne Bancroft and more.

Here is a website that has some listings for female explorers by century.
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/explore.html

Answer 5

If I were you I would go to a local library and look in the catergorie of explorers If nothing ask the librarianthey are bound to help you or point you in the right direction.

Answer 6

Top 10 Books on Women Explorers

1) They Went Whistling
Subtitled "Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades," by Barbara Holland. A quirky tour of women who traveled and explored, flouting convention and making their own way in the world. Sound scholarship, but presented in a more popular style, often with wry humor.

2) On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet
Luree Miller brings us the stories of three "English lady travelers," one American mountaineer, and a French "scholar adventurer." The names will be unfamiliar to most readers, but the stories are fascinating. The focus is on mountaineers who went to Tibet - but anyone interested in adventure and with women in unconventional roles is likely to find the book interesting.


3) Women of Discovery: Celebration of Intrepid Women
Milbry Polk and Mary Tiegreen present some well-known explorers, and plenty who won't be known to most readers. The contemporary touches - maps, original documents, photos - really bring the women's adventures to life. Includes not just geographic explorers, but some who explored new ideas, too.

4) Victorian Lady Travelers
Dorothy Middleton tells the stories of seven English and American women who traveled and worked on many continents (and a few islands) -- all women who broke through the expectations of domestic tranquility and went far from home to find adventure.

5) East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
Susan Butler's 1999 biography of the famous aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart, tells the whole story, and not just her famous exploits as a pilot. Her friendships and her politics are here as well. The book gains much by the digging of the author into letters, journals and archives and many interviews with those who knew Earhart.

6) Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark
A fascinating biography of an eccentric, courageous and passionate woman whose adventures as a woman traveling alone in the Middle East made her a pioneer. The author, Jane Fletcher Geniesse, roots Stark's bravery in her childhood and, paradoxically, her insecurities.

7) Living With Cannibals and Other Women's Adventurers
Michele Slung has produced this volume with the National Geographic Society, presenting the stories of women explorers from the 18th century to very recent years. Exploring the earth -- or space -- these women test their emotional and physical limits, and break through the expected limits on women.

8) Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II
Penny Colman on how brave women used words and photos from the front lines of World War II to magazine and newspaper readers back home. Women weren't in the combat forces -- but they were often working as reporters alongside and among them. Appropriate for older children, and will keep most adults interested too.

9) The Desert and the Sown
Gertrude Bell, who called herself "the Female Lawrence of Arabia" (the male one was a contemporary and ally), traveled the Middle East. She came to wield real influence - she helped to map the area and thereby shape its later politics.

10) Women into the Unknown: A Sourcebook on Women Explorers and Travelers
Marion Tinling has produced a great compilation of the stories of women exploring the unknown in the 19th and 20th century: 45 English, American and European women. The expense may keep many from this volume, but check online for used copies if you just have to have it and can't afford the full price.

From About.com

Answer 7

the book ''living with cannibals'' is a great book on woman explorers in the 19th century its published in 2000 and its ISBN is 0-7922-7686-8

Answer 8

I love questions like this. Go to the Library of Congress' website at: loc.gov and post your question(s) there. You will receive more information than you can possibly use.

Answer 9

Library might be a start

Answer 10

Are there any ?